If you are running a web blog and are looking for User Generated content which means that setting up a Discussion board where the content is added by your members and you need not worry about the content part check out bbPress which is a excellent forum script which is decent enough for bloggers because you can easily integrate your WordPress based blog with this forum and make all your blog comments to be posted on the forum and keep all the discussions at one place.
You can find a number of bbPress plugins and themes which can match your WordPress blogs design and offer your visitors with a same design for both the sections. The backend of bbPress is quite similar to WordPress Dashboard where you have the options of activating/deactivating the plugins and themes. There are numerous plugins for setting up private messages, advanced profile pages, Support System plugin, Social Bookmarking, Allow Images, Related Topics etc all of which would help you to run your forum easily and perfectly with the Spam in the board removed using Akismet.
